Defends the Gospel of Jesus Christ and confessional Reformed Anglicanism. The term "Reformed" refers to the five solas of the Reformation and the five points of Calvinism. The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and the Ordinal constitute the Anglican Formularies, the doctrinal standards of Anglicanism. The Lambeth Articles 1595 and Irish Articles 1615 are Reformed confessions. Isa 1:18,Rom 12:1, 2

About Me

In God's providence my doctrine has changed from Pentecostal Arminianism to Calvinism and Reformed Anglicanism. My Reformed standards are the Anglican Formularies (39 Articles of Religion, 1662 BCP, the Homilies), with the Westminster Standards and the Three Forms of Unity. Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, KY, 1995, M.Div. Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida, 1991, B.A., Cum Laude. [Nota Bene: All e-mails to me are considered in the public domain. I reserve the right to post them on the blog. Anonymous comments may or may not be posted at the discretion of the blog owner.]
Anglo-Catholicism and Arminianism are heresies.
I view Amyraldianism as a departure from Reformed theology and I disagree with the three points of common grace and the "gracious offer". I do post or link to sites that disagree with my views at times and having those sites on my blog does not constitute an endorsement of everything said on those sites. I generally endorse the presuppositional apologetics of Gordon H. Clark.
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Martyred for the Gospel

The burning of Tharchbishop of Cant. D. Tho. Cranmer in the town dich at Oxford, with his hand first thrust into the fyre, wherwith he subscribed before. [Click on the picture to see Cranmer's last words.]

Collect of the Day

O LORD, we beseech thee to keep thy Church and household continually in thy true religion; that they who do lean only upon the hope of thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

1.
You assume that John MacArthur is "Reformed." So far as I know, the
main thing John MacArthur has in common with Reformed theology is a
belief in predestination.

2. MacArthur does not pastor a
Reformed congregation nor does he confess the Reformed confessions
(e.g., the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of
Dort or the Westminster Standards). If the Reformed churches get to
define what "Reformed" means, then those public, ecclesiastical
statements are the objective standard of what is to be Reformed.

3.
MacArthur's account of justification in some of his books anyway has
been criticized by those who are actually Reformed in Michael S Horton,
ed. Christ the Lord.

4. It is recognized by anyone who actually
knows what the Reformed confess on justification that the Reformed
doctrine of justification sola gratia, sola fide is utterly incompatible
with the Roman doctrine of justification. If anyone doubts this he need
only consult the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent Session 6,
1547, where the Reformed doctrine of justification was condemned.

5.
The Reformed doctrine of justification is absolutely explicit that
works are nothing but the logical and necessary fruit of justification
and that justification is nothing but the forensic declaration of God
about sinners. The ground of justification is the righteousness of
Christ imputed and the instrument is faith resting and receiving Christ.

6. The Roman doctrine of justification is that only those who
are instrinsically righteous can be justified and only those who are
infused with grace and who cooperate with grace shall be justified.

7.
The Reformed Confessions explicitly reject the Roman doctrine of
justification by sanctification (i.e., by grace and cooperation with
grace).

8. Many ill-informed but enthusiastic predestinarian
evangelicals who, in reaction to antinominianism, have re-stated the
doctrine of justification in ways that are incompatible with the
confessional Reformed faith. Among these are Daniel Fuller, Norm
Shepherd, and the Federal Vision folks. Doubtless there are others.

9.
Among the leader proponents and defenders of the historic Protestant
doctrine of justification have been and continue to be confessional
Reformed theologians such as R C Sproul, Mike Horton, and Bob Godfrey.

10.
The fact that Scott Hahn or some other RC apologist attended WTS is
immaterial. WTS is a school. It is the duty of Reformed churches to make
decisions about whether a person is Reformed. Reformed seminaries
routine [-ly] admit students and sometimes graduate them [those] who do not understand
or agree with Reformed doctrine. WTS does not have a doctrinal test for
its graduates. Therefore the actions and words of its graduates do not
necessarily reflect the doctrinal convictions of the school or its
faculty.